Enterprise Transformations, It's all About Performance Management

In today's post we will talk about improve asset OOB feature of ePBCS' Capex Model. Let's take a use case where we have an existing building and we are planning to improve that building by adding a conference room and a stairwell. We have multiple ways to improve that asset, some of them are: 1. Plan for two new assets using add new asset rule under investments or 2. Using Improve Asset feature Here will talk about the second approach, if you want to use improve asset functionality you have to think through following asset structure Existing Building ABC     - Existing Building ABC Base     - ABC Conference Room     - ABC Stairwell Let's take a step by step approach to achieve such scenarios: Assuming from our Actual source system we got just one existing asset Existing Building ABC, if you are try to improve asset you will probably run to following issue: Error occurred during pre processing of business rule. Cannot add member <...

If you have landed on this page, you may want to look at this blog post which talks about new features of ePBCS Financial where you can bring in your chart of accounts instead of trying to fit in your chart of accounts with OOB. Let's start with first option where you have just enabled accounts option: After enabling above option, you will find following members in Account hierarchy: If you truly want to use your own set of account, this option is of no major use, because it still creates above accounts. Though you are saving on number of drivers.  If you want to check number of accounts, just for expense it creates 169 compare to 26 when you are not going with out of box accounts at all.  On the positive side, it still creates old hierarchies of drivers, probability of running into issues will be little lower as compared to going without Accounts or Drivers.  Now let's just check drivers and related account option option: ...

     ePBCS 18.2, a release to remember! We were waiting for this release quite anxiously, this is filled with a lot of bug fixes and a few new features. It solves one of the biggest Financial Model’s problem which I am sure any one who has either implemented or trying to implement must have faced.  How to bring in your chart of account and how to make it work with out of box(OOB) Account hierarchy ?  In above aspect, there were quite a few issues, some of them but not limited to: You have to map your COA with OOB Account categories Completely ignore OOB and start creating your own rollup and deal with consequences Go hybrid with the combination of above two Use existing members and Rename alias Add/Delete option disabled for member creation and deletion (Because of obvious reasons),  It creates a lot of additional unused accounts, leads to additional increased block size If you dont want to confuse planners with additional unu...